And is bad describing your own conduct, or the nature of the game as a whole? The second clause implies the first interpretation, but the other was what I first parsed your sentence as.
My own. That is to say, I played poorly, partly because I didn’t devote sufficient time/energy to the game, partly because I’ve never done PBEM Diplomacy before, partly because of the other players, and probably partly because of chance. I have no idea how much credit to assign each of these factors.
For what it’s worth, I enjoyed playing and learned a couple things. I may write up some thoughts about the game after it has concluded.
It’s a shame that you weren’t able to be more engaged, because we could have worked together at some point, and I would have saved you from going down so fast. I’m not sold on my choice to attack you in Serbia, but my alternative was attacking Russia, which would have been too risky without knowing that you were on board.
Well, this was probably the most spectacularly bad game of Diplomacy I’ve ever played, possibly excepting the first.
I’ll be interested to see how the rest of the game works out.
Have you ever played Austria before?
Once, a long time ago, and I don’t think we ever finished that game. Hmm, that might also be a factor...
And is bad describing your own conduct, or the nature of the game as a whole? The second clause implies the first interpretation, but the other was what I first parsed your sentence as.
My own. That is to say, I played poorly, partly because I didn’t devote sufficient time/energy to the game, partly because I’ve never done PBEM Diplomacy before, partly because of the other players, and probably partly because of chance. I have no idea how much credit to assign each of these factors.
For what it’s worth, I enjoyed playing and learned a couple things. I may write up some thoughts about the game after it has concluded.
It’s a shame that you weren’t able to be more engaged, because we could have worked together at some point, and I would have saved you from going down so fast. I’m not sold on my choice to attack you in Serbia, but my alternative was attacking Russia, which would have been too risky without knowing that you were on board.